What is a "Thigh Gap"?

[cheetaking243 (imported)]

Sigh... yet another case of girls obsessing over physical appearance, and feeling like we're not adequate unless we look a certain way, often sacrificing our very mental health and vitality in order to get it.

This is why I hate the beauty industry so much... we really are trying to live up to completely impossible standards. And then those standards get internalized, and get used as some sort of social-pressure hierarchy where those who do fit those standards use them to oppress those who don't and make them feel inferior. The sheer amount of self-confidence issues among girls, specifically middle-class white girls, who are most likely to fall victim to the "good girl" mindset of wanting to be perfect and please absolutely EVERYONE, is absolutely terrible.

[A-1 (imported)]

Sigh... yet another case of girls obsessing over physical appearance, and feeling like we're not adequate unless we look a certain way, often sacrificing our very mental health and vitality in order to get it.

This is why I hate the beauty industry so much... we really are trying to live up to completely impossible standards. And then those standards get internalized, and get used as some sort of social-pressure hierarchy where those who do fit those standards use them to oppress those who don't and make them feel inferior. The sheer amount of self-confidence issues among girls, specifically middle-class white girls, who are most likely to fall victim to the "good girl" mindset of wanting to be perfect and please absolutely EVERYONE, is absolutely terrible.

I concur. This must stop. Everyone is beautiful in their own way. I usually like nice asses, tight vaginas, relatively small boobs and athletic bodies unless I am in the rarest of moods...

[tugon (imported)]

I think of myself as Rubenesque.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

This is not new. When I was (much) younger the phenomenon was known as the "three finger air gap" and was not so much a criticism as it was an observation. --FLO--